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... right thumb Canadarm and Canadarm2 Work on the MSS, had begun at SPAR in 1985. At that time SPAR had contracts to supply parts and end-effectors for Canadarm to NASA. The ... purchased in 1999 by MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates (MDA). Image:100YearsCanadianSlide49.JPG right thumb SPAR Aerospace SPAR had gone through a long period of expansion and growth during the 1980s and early ... effectively.''" v The STEM however, continued on unabated. Astro Aerospace, the California based company that SPAR had purchased to circumvent the US Congress, is currently a division of Northrop Grumman. The ...

... simultaneously keeping the Canadian government happy by evolving the spin-off businesses for Canadian industry. SPAR met almost all of their goals on time including passing a critical design review by ... the immediate decision making from the executive management. By 1995 Space represented only 41% of SPAR's total revenue, the rest being divided amongst Communications, Aviation and Defence and Informatics. By ...

... fight fire with fire and hired a lobbying firm to work on behalf of SPAR in Washington. SPAR ultimately prevailed and work began on the arm project in the early 1970s. Pressure ... simultaneously keeping the Canadian government happy by evolving the spin-off businesses for Canadian industry. SPAR met almost all of their goals on time including passing a critical design review by ... the end of development NASA thought they were only obliged to buy two arms from SPAR while SPAR thought it was four. Then an argument ensued over who would pay the duty ...

... his assassination outside his apartment in Brussels in 1990. The newly minted public version of SPAR elected to move into more varied fields of opportunity including diving equipment, emergency equipment, gearing ... revolutionary communications satellite in conjunction with NASA and the ESA, called ''Communications Technology Satellite'' (CTS.) SPAR and RCA would again be contractors on the project. CTS would provide a new kind ...

... across. The main chassis for the satellite had been built and tested at the Downsview SPAR facility. The downlink equipment had been made by RCA in Montreal in less than two ... orbit but it had been built in the United States.) The staff and management at SPAR were delighted to find out that the STEMs had performed perfectly and Alouette soon began ... Memoir pg 131 vi Ibid. pg 132 vii An Extendible Boom System for Space Vehicles, SPAR, Jan 30 1963 viii Thespacelibrary.com ix Globe and Mail Jan 13 1954 x Ibid ...

... detection radar. Image:100YearsCanadianSlide38b.JPG right thumb COM DEV Multiplexers COM DEV was subcontracted by SPAR to contribute to the European Remote Sensing Satellite as the supplier of microwave components. Later ... takeover, MDA became a wholly owned subsidiary of Orbital. vi In March 1999 MDA purchased SPARs robotics division, and with it the Canadarm contracts. vii That same year Orbital sold its ...

... . Image:Chapman Lapp.jpg 200px '''John H. Chapman and Philip A. Lapp - Canadian engineers (1961)''' SPAR After the purchase of A.V. Roe Canada by De Havilland parent Hawker Siddeley, Lapp ... Special Projects merged with De Havilland's Special Projects to create Special Projects Applied Research (SPAR). Lapp would then be instrumental in the development of the Storable Tubular Extendible Member or ...

SPAR II, a Black Brant VC sounding rocket carrying materials processing experiments, was launched from the ... the second of a series of 15 planned during the next 5 yr in the SPAR (space-processing applications rocket) program managed by Marshall Space Flight Center . The 225.7-kg payload consisted of 10 experiments, 6 similar to those carried on SPAR I launched 11 Dec. 1975; the rocket reached an altitude of 188 km, providing about ...

... MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER MSFC announced it had shipped to GFSC the experiment payload for SPAR 111, third in a series of about 15 space-processing applications rockets being flown over ... Range , N.M., for a scheduled mid-December launch. SPAR payloads recovered by parachute would be forwarded to investigators for analysis. The SPAR flight would provide about 5 min of near-zero ...

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